A non-descriptive statement. / (business) An organisation's statement of its ethical values, complementary to mission statement and vision statement.

(law) In adversarial legal systems, a statement made by a party at the beginning of a trial or comparable factfinding proceeding, in which that party lays out their case, generally including the points of fact that they intend to demonstrate and to some degree indicating the rhetorical arguments for why they should prevail.

(law) Testimony, either oral or written, provided during a proceeding in a court of law which describes the harmful effects produced by the actions of an accused or convicted party and suffered by the victim or others, offered especially for consideration by the court in deciding an appropriate punishment.

Alternative form of counterstatement

A type of fallacy from making an inductive conclusion with insufficient evidence; a kind of faulty generalization; underpowered generalization

(philosophy) A statement expressing a value judgment answering the question of what ought to be, as opposed to what there is.

A statement that can be verified by facts.

A concise description of a problem

Used other than figuratively or idiomatically: see prepared, statement.

plural of upside-down income statement